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Wolverhampton Art Gallery aims to provide a friendly, accessible and inclusive environment for visitors to explore art, at their leisure.

Venue Type:

Gallery

Opening hours

Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00

Closed: Sun & Bank Holidays

Admission charges

FREE

Getting there

The Art Gallery is situated in the centre of Wolverhampton, just 5 minutes walk from the bus, train and tram stations. Wolverhampton is well served with bus, train and tram links to Birmingham and other towns in the West Midlands.

If you are coming by car, follow the signs for Wolverhampton from the M5, M6 and M54, Wolverhampton Art Gallery is signposted off the city ring road. There are several car parks nearby. The Civic Centre car park is the closest for the Art Gallery.

Highlights of our art collections include pieces that examine the modern phase of the conflict in Northern Ireland, one of the largest collections of Pop Art outside of London and exquisite Georgian paintings from the 1700s. Extensive collections not on display but accessible through the new resource centre, include geology and archaeology.

Collection details

Archaeology, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, World Cultures

Key artists and exhibits

Andy Warhol

'Jackie'

Peter Blake

'Beach Boys'

David Hockney

Conrad Atkinson

Rita Duffy

Willie Doherty

Anthony Haughey

1960s Pop Culture

Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Exhibition (temporary)

New Art West Midlands

31 January — 26 April 2015 *on now

The work of 30 recent visual arts graduates from the West Midlands’ five universities art schools has been selected for the multi-sited New Art West Midlands 2015 exhibitions. The exhibitions are designed to showcase quality, innovative work by the best new talent in the region. Painting, sculpture, print-making and film are all represented, demonstrating a variety of approaches, influences and ideas.

The exhibition takes place across three other venues Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, The Barber Institute of Fine Art and Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry.

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Family friendly

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The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite

7 February — 9 May 2015 *on now

In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to the European Space Agency and its partners. Over the past two years he has travelled to 20 locations across Europe and South America to shoot in classified facilities such as test centres, robotics departments, launch sites, astronaut training centres and satellite assembly rooms.

Martins’ ground-breaking series documents a variety of ESA’s programmes such as microgravity, human spaceflight and lunar, Mars and Mercury explorations, whilst reflecting on the new politics of space exploration and the impact of its technological application on our consciousness.

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Pop in Space: We Choose to go to the Moon

21 February — 18 July 2015 *on now

Pop in Space explores artists’ responses to the Space Race during the Cold War. Artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Gerald Laing, David Lamelas and Kiki Kogelnik, among others, employed space imagery to reflect the glamour and power of infinite exploration and introduced a striking space age imagery during the 1950s and 60s. Half a century later, this exhibition explores tensions from the technological and ideological rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union, both focused on attaining a first in space exploration.

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Family friendly

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The Current Situation

1 April — 27 June 2015

The desire to create art which is accessible and playful, sits at the heart of Yara El Sherbini’s practice. For the past 10 years, her artworks have used the recognisable formats of jokes, games and game shows, as well as everyday objects such as toilet locks and books to allow people to relate and engage with contemporary art and provoke important socio-political questions.

The Current Situation brings together a selection of five artworks that are diverse in their presentation but connected by a common theme: an exploration of the here and now. Yara El-Sherbini is represented by La Caja Blanca Gallery, Spain, and is an Artsadmin Associate Artist

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Martin Parr - Black Country Stories

22 May — 22 August 2015

In 2010 Multistory commissioned Magnum photographer Martin Parr to produce a photographic portrait and archive about everyday life in the Black Country.

Over the last four years, Parr has made visits to Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Dudley, meeting a wide range of local people. He has visited shops and markets, places of worship, football grounds, factories, pubs and clubs.

Archiving Place & Time-Education Pack

This education pack is a free downloadable resource for use by group leaders, teachers and visitors to the exhibition Archiving Place & Time: Contemporary Art Practice in Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement.This resource provides:• Artist biographies and points of note;• Exhibition introduction;• List of keywords and phrases linked to the exhibition theme;• A selection of ideas for activities designed to engage visitors with themes in the exhibition;• Multi-layered questions focussed around key works;• Colour reference images for questions.

Publisher

How to obtain

Get Moving

Animation gives children a strong sense of control: they get to create their own characters and make them do whatever they like. It is great for introducing students to the idea of concept in artwork and to storytelling. The content can be shaped by their life experiences and can work as a medium to express their feelings.Animation can be used to improve literacy skills and to develop team-working skills. Producing animation may involve many processes: storyboarding, scripting, developing characters, creating the animated figures, recording vocals etc. These processes can be used to improve reading, writing and listening skills. Because producing animation can be very time consuming

Creator

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Publisher

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

How to obtain

You can order this catalogue online by using our order form (via the URL).A member of the retail team will then contact you to confirm postage costs and payment method. We expect your order to be with you within 7 days from taking your payment. Alternatively please call Wolverhampton Arts and Museums shop directly to place your order on 01902 550060. £5.00 + p&p.

Paper-based and downloads

Junior Curators

Our Junior Curators resources have been designed for pupils in upper Key Stage 2. A Junior Curators project can be carried out entirely in the classroom but would be greatly enhanced by a visit to a museum or gallery. Pupils learn about what museum and gallery staff do during hands-on sessions including examining objects, researching and recording information about objects and by designing and creating an exhibition. Information about a variety of museum objects is also provided which could be used to support other work in the Literacy or History curriculum.

Raw to Refined DVD

Watch three makers transform basic materials into beautiful contemporary craft objects. Working in their own studios, the makers demonstrate glass blowing, coil pots and hammered metal vessels. Carolyn Genders: CeramistInspired by views around her home, Carolyn creates impressive finished craft pieces by sculpting basic shapes created from coils of clay. Wayne Meeten: SilversmithGreatly influenced by the time he spent studying and working in Japan, Wayne creates beautiful silver vessels using hammered metal techniques. Stuart Akroyd: Contemporary GlassStuart makes beautiful glass shapes using traditional glass blowing methods. He uses plants and creatures in the ocean to give him

Creator

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Publisher

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

How to obtain

Special Offer £6.00 (normally £10.00) inc p&pYou can order this catalogue online using our catalogue order form. A member of the retail team will then contact you to confirm postage costs and payment method. We expect your order to be with you within 7 days from taking your payment. Alternatively please call Wolverhampton Arts and Museums shop directly to place your order on 01902 550060.

Paper-based and downloads

The Northern Ireland Collection: An Education Resource

Invaluable to Art & Design, History and Citizenship teachers at KS3 and above, this resource will also appeal to those wanting to find out more about the history of The Troubles and artistic responses to it. We also anticipate the resource supporting teachers in FE who have to deliver units based on the key skills alongside the National Diploma, especially communication - using conflict as a subject for debate and issues.The hardback box contains an A5 book along with 20 A5 themed activity cards. The resource provides:1. Points of note about the artists and their work, for teachers to use and adapt 2. A student overview of the modern-day Troubles, which moves quickly through key eve

Creator

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Publisher

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

How to obtain

Price: £9.99 plus P&PYou can order this catalogue online using our order form (via the URL).A member of the retail team will then contact you to confirm postage costs and payment method. We expect your order to be with you within 7 days from taking your payment. Alternatively please call Wolverhampton Arts and Museums shop directly to place your order on 01902 550060.

Getting there

The Art Gallery is situated in the centre of Wolverhampton, just 5 minutes walk from the bus, train and tram stations. Wolverhampton is well served with bus, train and tram links to Birmingham and other towns in the West Midlands.

If you are coming by car, follow the signs for Wolverhampton from the M5, M6 and M54, Wolverhampton Art Gallery is signposted off the city ring road. There are several car parks nearby. The Civic Centre car park is the closest for the Art Gallery.